Session 1: June 25

History of Household Economics (HHE) since the early 20 ^th Century, with an emphasis on the role of women

• Definition of HHE
• Home Economics: Reid, Kyrk
• Modern Household Economics: Becker, Mincer at Columbia and Chicago
• Feminist Economics
• The outcomes of interest
  
  

Readings:

Folbre, Nancy. "The 'Sphere of Women' in Early Twentieth Century Economics." In Gender and American Social Science, edited by Helene Silverberg. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. https://press.princeton.edu/titles/6259.html

Yi, Yun-Ae. "Margaret G. Reid: Life and Achievements." Feminist Economics 2, no. 3 (November 1, 1996): 17-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545709610001707746.

Grossbard, Shoshana. "The New Home Economics at Columbia and Chicago." In Jacob Mincer: A Pioneer of Modern Labor Economics, edited by Shoshana Grossbard. Springer US, 2006. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387291741

Session 2: June 26

Modeling Decision-Making in Households

• Unitary models
• Marriage market models
• Bargaining models
• Collective models
• Macro-level implications, including effects of sex ratio
• Micro-level implications, including use of hedonic marriage market analysis when explaining labor supply, consumption, couple formation, fertility and more

  Readings:

Appendix to Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 and Selected portions of other chapters in Grossbard, Shoshana. The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage: How Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption, and Savings. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2015. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781461416227

Grossbard-Schechtman, Shoshana. On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce., 1993. https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/81832/5/MPRA_paper_81059.pdf

Session 3: June 27

Empirical studies on labor supply, consumption, couple formation, fertility, and more

Readings:

3.1On effects of sex ratio:

 Charles, Kerwin Kofi, and Ming Ching Luoh. "Male Incarceration, the Marriage Market, and Female Outcomes." The Review of Economics and Statistics 92, no. 3 (May 17, 2010): 614-27. https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00022

Porter, Maria. "How Do Sex Ratios in China Influence Marriage Decisions and Intra-Household Resource Allocation?" Review of Economics of the Household 14, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 337-71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-014-9262-9

3.2Micro-analyses incorporating markets for marriage and other relationships: 

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana A., and Shoshana Neuman. "Women's Labor Supply and Marital Choice." Journal of Political Economy 96, no. 6 (1988): 1294-1302.

Chiappori, Pierre-André, Sonia Oreffice, and Climent Quintana-Domeque. "Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market." Journal of Political Economy 120, no. 4 (August 1, 2012): 659-95. https://doi.org/10.1086/667941

Badgett, M. Lee, Gary Gates, and Natalya Maisel. "Registered Domestic Partnerships among Gay Men and Lesbians: The Role of Economic Factors." Review of Economics of the Household 6, no. 4 (2008): 327-46.

Session 4: June 28

Policy implications, including implications about gender in the economics profession. Includes guest lecture by Professor Elsa Fontainha from ISEG (Coordinator in ISEG of the EU Horizon 2020 Project Promoting Gender Balance and Inclusion in Research, Innovation and Training (PLOTINA) www.plotina.eu

4.1Overview of implications regarding policy, firm strategies, and personal strategies

Grossbard, Shoshana. "Introduction." In Marriage and the Economy Edited by Shoshana A. Grossbard, Foreword by Jacob Mincer, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511615863

4.2Economic analyses of effects of laws related to marriage and divorce

Grossbard-Shechtman., Shoshana. "Marriage Market Models." In The New Economics of Human Behaviour Edited by Mariano Tommasi, 1995. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511599040

Wong, Ho-Po Crystal. "Credible Commitments and Marriage: When The Homemaker Gets Her Share At Divorce." Journal of Demographic Economics 82, no. 3 (September 2016): 241-79. https://doi.org/10.1017/dem.2016.9

Alshaikhmubarak, Hazem, R. Richard Geddes, and Shoshana A. Grossbard. "Single Motherhood and the Abolition of Coverture in the United States." Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 16, no. 1 (2019): 94-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/jels.12210

4.3Gender and household production

Foster, Gigi, and Leslie S. Stratton. "Do Significant Labor Market Events Change Who Does the Chores? Paid Work, Housework, and Power in Mixed-Gender Australian Households." Journal of Population Economics 31, no. 2 (April 1, 2018): 483-519. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-017-0667-7

4.4Gender and Citations of Economics articles

Grossbard, Shoshana, Tansel Yilmazer, and Zhang Lingrui. "The Gender Gap in Citations: Lessons from Demographic Economics Journals." HCEO Working Paper 2018-078., October 2018. https://hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/working-paper/gender-gap-citations-lessons-demographic-economics-journals